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...State of Maryland sued a seller of medical-alert units (price: $1,295 each) that became useless junk when the firm failed to pay the company monitoring the equipment. And the American Association of Retired Persons decries the industry's high-pressure sales ploys. According to Myra Herrick, a retired Boston AARP representative, one elderly woman bought a Lifecall system after a four-hour sales pitch because she wanted the salesperson to leave. (Lifecall denies knowledge of the incident.) AARP contends that at $1,000 or more plus monthly monitoring fees, the systems are usually costlier than emergency-response services...
When Lea Ann and Brad Curry of Lanesville, Ind., first lifted the hands of tiny daughter Natalie, their hearts clutched. The baby's left thumb was missing, and her right thumb was useless. The radius bone was missing from the infant's left arm. The doctors' diagnosis was devastating: Fanconi's anemia. Unless Natalie received a new immune system from transplanted stem cells, the units from which all blood cells derive, she faced a short life of severe anemia and possible retardation...
...kind of electronic cheesecloth and remove all the ancient evil traces, the reptilian brain, the lashing violence, the tribal hatred, the will to murder? Will the killer be strained out of the soul? Will the inheritance of Cain be left to wither and die with the human husk, the useless flesh...
...Once I couldn't be a leader on the field anymore, I felt pretty useless. I felt like a 270-lb. cheerleader," Callahan says. "When you're playing it seems that playing is the most important thing in the world. You get the feeling that the team can't go on without you. Seeing everybody go on without you is a little bit humbling...
Unlike poker, this is a game where strategy is not only unnecessary but totally useless. "It's all probability," says Lee Isgur, a leading gaming and entertainment analyst at Volpe, Welty & Co. in San Francisco. Still, players cling to the idea that their own system will work: playing at a certain time of day, stroking good-luck charms or punching the buttons at a certain speed...